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528 ways to practice communication.
48 foundation lessons and 480 additional worked lessons across 24 focused collections. Four grade bands are practice choices within each lesson.
Original foundations
- Choose a communication purpose
- Adapt to your audience
- Find and prioritize the main idea
- Rehearse with a specific purpose
- Listen for meaning and structure
- Paraphrase and check understanding
- Ask questions that clarify
- Ask follow-up and probing questions
- Explain a process in a usable sequence
- Use examples and analogies carefully
- Build a story around a meaningful change
- Summarize without losing the meaning
- Open a talk with purpose and relevance
- Help listeners follow a talk
- End with a clear takeaway
- Think and speak with limited preparation
- Use pace and pauses to support meaning
- Make emphasis match your meaning
- Use nonverbal choices accessibly
- Read aloud with understanding
- Build a claim with connected reasons
- Choose and evaluate evidence
- Persuade responsibly
- Respond to objections constructively
- Define the question before debating
- Rebut a reason, not a person
- Compare arguments and tradeoffs
- Run a fair structured discussion
- Create useful discussion norms
- Make a decision together
- Facilitate a focused conversation
- Turn agreement into shared action
- Understand another perspective
- Make a clear request or boundary
- Work through a disagreement
- Apologize and repair effectively
- Write a request someone can act on
- Choose a suitable tone and register
- Interpret online messages cautiously
- Comment on shared work usefully
- Prepare and conduct an interview
- Handle a question session honestly
- Explain a visual or data display
- Present a practical proposal
- Give feedback that improves the next attempt
- Reflect using evidence of learning
- Design practice with multiple ways to participate
- Design practice that transfers
Everyday conversations
- Joining a conversation
- Opening with shared context
- Giving a useful update
- Making a specific request
- Checking the right moment
- Ending a conversation kindly
- Introducing two people
- Explaining a change of plan
- Offering help without taking over
- Responding to a compliment
- Giving a genuine compliment
- Sharing a small disappointment
- Asking to repeat a detail
- Offering a choice with limits
- Receiving an invitation
- Declining without an excuse
- Acknowledging someone waiting
- Repairing an unclear pronoun
- Distinguishing a request from a command
- Following up on a promise
Listening for meaning
- Listening for two conditions
- Checking a name respectfully
- Listening through a correction
- Separating hearing from agreement
- Catching a missing step
- Checking a feeling without labeling
- Listening to a long explanation
- Remembering the main point
- Responding to silence
- Checking a surprising claim
- Listening without preparing a comeback
- Noticing a changed preference
- Checking an uncertain detail
- Listening to instructions in noise
- Returning to a missed point
- Respecting different listening styles
- Noticing a qualification
- Listening for the actual question
- Using a short note to listen
- Checking a second-hand message
Questions that open thinking
- Turning a quiz into curiosity
- Asking one thing at a time
- Inviting a specific example
- Asking about a process
- Exploring an exception
- Asking about evidence
- Clarifying a word
- Inviting another perspective
- Using a neutral follow-up
- Checking a comparison
- Asking what would change a view
- Exploring a cause carefully
- Asking permission for a personal question
- Checking an unstated assumption
- Asking about a constraint
- Inviting a next step
- Asking for a counterexample
- Giving thinking time
- Checking whether a question is answerable
- Closing an inquiry
Friendship and belonging
- Inviting someone into a game
- Responding to being left out
- Making room for a new learner
- Handling different interests
- Checking before teasing
- Welcoming a different contribution
- Responding to a rumour
- Repairing an accidental exclusion
- Sharing a friend fairly
- Handling a declined invitation
- Disagreeing without ranking people
- Responding when a friend changes
- Noticing unequal effort
- Supporting without fixing
- Keeping a confidence safely
- Handling group pressure
- Including someone without speaking for them
- Distinguishing conflict from bullying
- Reconnecting after time apart
- Celebrating without comparison
Family conversations
- Negotiating a shared room
- Asking about a household rule
- Sharing a device schedule
- Planning a transition
- Requesting help with homework
- Explaining a busy week
- Giving an adult useful notice
- Discussing a budget limit
- Handling a sibling interruption
- Asking for privacy
- Noticing care work
- Explaining a forgotten task
- Making a family meeting useful
- Discussing different preferences
- Requesting a routine adjustment
- Staying connected at a distance
- Sharing good news considerately
- Clarifying responsibility
- Discussing a mistake safely
- Reviewing a family agreement
Boundaries and respectful choices
- Saying no to borrowing
- Choosing how to greet someone
- Protecting personal information
- Stopping unwanted touch
- Requesting a quieter interaction
- Leaving an uncomfortable game
- Respecting another person's no
- Asking before sharing a photo
- Setting a message expectation
- Declining a personal topic
- Handling repeated pressure
- Separating a boundary from a threat
- Asking before moving belongings
- Responding to a changed mind
- Avoiding an unwanted explanation
- Choosing a safe helper
- Naming a limit on helping
- Asking for access support
- Protecting creative work
- Returning after a break
Feelings and difficult moments
- Naming a feeling precisely
- Separating feeling from accusation
- Explaining mixed feelings
- Asking for a pause
- Describing intensity without exaggerating
- Responding to someone else's worry
- Avoiding mind reading
- Explaining a need after a setback
- Noticing a body signal
- Accepting a feeling without accepting harm
- Receiving reassurance thoughtfully
- Sharing excitement with room for others
- Talking about embarrassment
- Responding to a loss in a game
- Avoiding forced positivity
- Requesting reassurance clearly
- Distinguishing a thought from a fact
- Responding to overwhelming information
- Choosing support rather than isolation
- Describing a recovery strategy
Conflict and repair
- Apologizing for an interruption
- Repairing a damaged object
- Avoiding the apology with a but
- Checking a disagreement's scope
- Separating intention and impact
- Replacing always and never
- Offering a concrete repair
- Allowing time after an apology
- Checking facts before blaming
- Choosing a shared problem
- Responding to an unfair accusation
- Correcting public misinformation
- Recognizing when mediation is unsuitable
- Repairing after laughing at someone
- Asking what repair is possible
- Disagreeing about a memory
- Returning to an unresolved issue
- Making a future agreement
- Noticing an ineffective repair
- Owning a group mistake
Stories with shape and meaning
- Starting near the action
- Giving a character a clear goal
- Showing a change
- Connecting events with because
- Choosing a telling detail
- Keeping a consistent viewpoint
- Using dialogue with a purpose
- Signalling a flashback
- Building suspense honestly
- Resolving the central question
- Retelling without adding facts
- Using a repeated phrase
- Choosing a meaningful ending
- Explaining a character's decision
- Making a setting useful
- Distinguishing narrator and author
- Compressing repeated events
- Using an open ending deliberately
- Adapting a story's length
- Telling a shared story fairly
Explaining how and why
- Explaining a simple mechanism
- Giving instructions with a starting state
- Explaining a rule through an example
- Distinguishing how from why
- Using an analogy with a limit
- Explaining a graph's axes
- Defining before using jargon
- Adding units to a result
- Explaining a failed attempt
- Teaching a game rule
- Using a labeled diagram
- Explaining a fraction comparison
- Checking audience background
- Distinguishing a model from reality
- Explaining an exception
- Using a worked example
- Handling a question outside your knowledge
- Explaining a sequence with a branch
- Checking understanding through action
- Summarizing an explanation's limit
Presentations that connect
- Opening with a useful question
- Previewing a route
- Making one slide do one job
- Choosing readable labels
- Using a prop purposefully
- Signposting a transition
- Rehearsing a tricky section
- Recovering after losing your place
- Handling a question you cannot answer
- Answering briefly before adding detail
- Sharing the stage
- Checking time without rushing
- Using speaker notes
- Closing with a takeaway
- Separating a finding from a recommendation
- Inviting accessible participation
- Responding to a challenging question
- Introducing a quotation
- Designing a poster for browsing
- Reflecting after presenting
Voice, pacing, and accessible delivery
- Pausing at a key point
- Using comfortable volume
- Separating pace from intelligence
- Marking meaningful phrases
- Using emphasis selectively
- Handling a forgotten word
- Respecting an accent
- Offering a written contribution
- Using gesture with meaning
- Choosing a stable position
- Checking microphone use
- Making a number understandable
- Using a planned pause during nerves
- Avoiding forced eye contact
- Making captions useful
- Choosing readable on-screen text
- Explaining a visual aloud
- Responding to a request to repeat
- Practicing in manageable parts
- Choosing delivery for the setting
Writing people can use
- Writing an informative subject line
- Putting a request near the start
- Writing a useful opening sentence
- Grouping related ideas
- Replacing vague words
- Using a paragraph topic sentence
- Writing a clear list
- Choosing active wording
- Keeping a useful qualification
- Making a revision for the reader
- Proofreading a name and date
- Writing a polite reminder
- Writing a correction
- Separating quotation and paraphrase
- Writing a comparison paragraph
- Making a conclusion earn its place
- Adapting a formal message
- Writing useful peer comments
- Keeping instructions self-contained
- Checking tone before sending
Digital conversations and safety
- Clarifying a short text
- Pausing before forwarding
- Choosing a group chat purpose
- Handling an unknown sender
- Responding to an upsetting message
- Respecting a screenshot boundary
- Avoiding location clues
- Writing an accessible link label
- Checking a link before opening
- Handling pressure to share a password
- Managing notification expectations
- Making a group message actionable
- Correcting a mistaken recipient
- Avoiding public pile-ons
- Distinguishing identity from appearance
- Considering a post's future audience
- Declining a chain message
- Keeping a shared document respectful
- Describing an online problem accurately
- Checking before recording
Media and information judgment
- Separating a headline from its article
- Recognizing sponsored content
- Checking an image's context
- Distinguishing popularity from accuracy
- Finding the original source
- Recognizing an opinion
- Checking a date
- Noticing omitted comparisons
- Reading beyond a dramatic number
- Recognizing a cropped quotation
- Checking a testimonial
- Handling uncertain provenance
- Identifying an emotional appeal
- Recognizing selective examples
- Checking an expert's relevant field
- Comparing two reports
- Recognizing satire carefully
- Checking synthetic media claims
- Noticing a false dilemma
- Stating a calibrated conclusion
Evidence and careful claims
- Matching a claim to a sample
- Separating observation and inference
- Using a fair comparison
- Explaining relevance
- Acknowledging measurement limits
- Distinguishing correlation and cause
- Reporting a null result
- Checking a denominator
- Choosing a representative example
- Recognizing missing evidence
- Distinguishing prediction and result
- Qualifying a broad claim
- Explaining a source limitation
- Comparing like with like
- Interpreting an outlier
- Separating confidence from truth
- Checking a causal chain
- Reporting a changed conclusion
- Using uncertainty constructively
- Inviting evidence that challenges you
Persuasion and practical proposals
- Proposing a small trial
- Explaining who benefits
- Naming a real cost
- Avoiding a promise you cannot support
- Addressing the decision maker
- Using evidence proportionately
- Offering a fallback option
- Acknowledging inconvenience
- Explaining implementation
- Defining success before a trial
- Making a request proportionate
- Recognizing a tradeoff
- Avoiding guilt as persuasion
- Comparing alternatives fairly
- Responding to a reasonable objection
- Distinguishing need and solution
- Inviting affected people early
- Making a transparent call to action
- Describing an honest limitation
- Revising after feedback
Disagreement and critical dialogue
- Restating before rebutting
- Finding common ground
- Challenging an idea without attacking
- Responding to the strongest reason
- Recognizing a straw man
- Distinguishing a claim and a reason
- Checking a shared definition
- Conceding a valid point
- Asking what follows
- Responding to a hypothetical
- Avoiding moving the goalposts
- Comparing competing reasons
- Handling a discussion that loops
- Distinguishing values and facts
- Changing a view openly
- Naming a remaining disagreement
- Handling an irrelevant comparison
- Using a counterexample carefully
- Closing without a winner
- Knowing when to stop a debate
Teamwork and shared projects
- Agreeing a shared outcome
- Assigning a role clearly
- Checking a dependency
- Making a handover useful
- Sharing an uneven workload
- Deciding how to decide
- Inviting missing contributions
- Recording an action
- Handling a missed deadline
- Separating brainstorming and choosing
- Coordinating shared edits
- Giving credit accurately
- Checking whether help is wanted
- Making a meeting shorter
- Raising a risk early
- Agreeing a quality check
- Responding to a new member
- Disagreeing about a task allocation
- Closing a project responsibly
- Reviewing the process
Leadership and facilitation
- Opening a group discussion
- Setting a useful agenda
- Making turn-taking visible
- Redirecting a tangent kindly
- Checking a quiet disagreement
- Sharing leadership
- Explaining a decision process
- Protecting a contributor from interruption
- Separating authority and expertise
- Naming a decision's limit
- Handling your own error as leader
- Summarizing a meeting fairly
- Delegating with support
- Making participation voluntary
- Managing limited time
- Checking a group's priorities
- Responding to feedback on leadership
- Communicating a non-negotiable constraint
- Welcoming a successor
- Evaluating a fair process
Perspectives, culture, and language
- Asking about a tradition
- Avoiding a single story
- Checking a greeting preference
- Respecting a home language
- Asking about pronunciation
- Interpreting a pause
- Avoiding a representative burden
- Clarifying an idiom
- Checking a translated meaning
- Recognizing different routines
- Discussing a cultural object respectfully
- Avoiding assumptions about food
- Comparing customs without ranking
- Checking humor across contexts
- Recognizing diversity within a group
- Asking an optional question
- Adapting a group activity
- Repairing a stereotype
- Distinguishing curiosity from entitlement
- Checking a shared understanding
Inclusive and accessible communication
- Offering more than speech
- Writing instructions alongside speech
- Making a chart accessible
- Describing relevant images
- Allowing processing time
- Asking before assisting
- Keeping text readable
- Using clear navigation words
- Supporting a new reader
- Avoiding public disclosure demands
- Checking captions and transcripts
- Respecting AAC contributions
- Offering a predictable structure
- Breaking a dense instruction into parts
- Using plain language without losing meaning
- Checking access in a group task
- Making a choice genuinely usable
- Avoiding assumptions from fluent speech
- Allowing a planned break
- Checking whether an adjustment worked
Real-world requests and responsibilities
- Asking a librarian for help
- Reporting a lost item
- Asking about an opening time
- Requesting a correction to a record
- Preparing for a school meeting
- Explaining an absence appropriately
- Making a service inquiry
- Asking for directions safely
- Giving directions clearly
- Checking permission before an activity
- Reporting a broken shared object
- Making a complaint factual
- Responding to a form question
- Preparing an interview question
- Thanking someone after help
- Explaining a schedule conflict
- Checking an official message
- Requesting an accommodation politely
- Following up without pressure
- Closing a request loop
Feedback, reflection, and learning transfer
- Making feedback specific
- Choosing one revision
- Asking what feedback is wanted
- Distinguishing preference and criterion
- Receiving a suggestion thoughtfully
- Checking whether revision helped
- Using a simple reflection
- Transferring a skill to a new setting
- Keeping a learning record on the platform
- Avoiding a false ability label
- Checking a goal's size
- Comparing with your own earlier attempt
- Giving feedback with permission
- Noticing a strength worth keeping
- Separating effort and effectiveness
- Testing a strategy twice
- Planning spaced practice
- Responding to conflicting feedback
- Reflecting on audience access
- Choosing when to seek guidance